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The Centre des Cultures et Spiritualités Ewés (CCSE) is a project initiated by the Kothor Foundation, whose aim is to promote the culture and historical heritage of the Ewé people through the construction of a multi-faceted site. The project also aims to change the way visitors and the general...
Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis: A Fable stars Adam Driver as an architect, master builder, and scientist who leads the Design Authority in the fictional city of New Rome. With a supernatural power and a Nobel Prize to his credit, he strives to realize a utopian future inspired by...
Details have been announced for the proposed Las Vegas Museum of Art (LVMA), the first major art museum for the “City of Lights.” Planned for a site in Symphony Park, the museum is being designed by Francis Kéré, recipient of the
Munich is looking forward to its first building by architect Francis Kéré: a children's daycare center in the middle of the TU Munich campus, where Kéré works as a professor. For this project, he teamed up with timber construction expert Hermann Kaufmann.
Gando-born, Berlin-based architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has been named a recipient of Japan Art Association’s 2023 Praemium Imperiale, one of the world's most prestigious awards for architects and other artists.
The Pritzker Architecture Prize has released a short film with highlights from this year's award ceremony honoring architect, educator and social activist Diébédo Francis Kéré.
On March 15, Francis Kéré was named the 2022 laureate of the Pritzker Architecture Prize, considered by many as architecture's highest honor. Ulf Meyer visited Kéré in his Berlin office to speak with the architect about the Pritzker, his career, and some of the buildings his firm is working...
Francis Kéré talks about his contributions as an architect, how he builds in his home town of Gando, the role of trees in his design, and more in five short films made on the occasion of being named
Diébédo Francis Kéré has been named the laureate of this year’s Pritzker Architecture Prize. Born in Gando and based in Berlin (he is a dual citizen of Burkina Faso and Germany), Kéré is the first architect from Africa to win the prize considered architecture’s highest honor.
Construction is now underway on the Kéré Architecture-designed Goethe Institute in Dakar, Senegal, with the new cultural center set to open its doors in the summer of 2023.
Architectural photographer Iwan Baan and his friend, architect Francis Kéré, traveled around Burkina Faso. The result of their trip is an inspiring illustrated book on the role of sunlight in African architecture.
The Startup Lions Campus, designed by Kéré Architecture, has opened on the banks of Lake Turkana. The building's form, inspired by termite mounds, naturally ventilates the interior spaces and creates a local landmark.
The University of Virginia and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello have announced that Francis Kéré is the recipient of the 2021 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Architecture.
Francis Kéré's design of the new national assembly building to be located in Porto-Novo, the capital of Benin, was inspired by the palaver tree, "the age-old West African tradition of meeting under a tree to make consensual decisions in the interest of a community."
In the lead up to the 27th World Congress of Architects in Rio de Janeiro in July 2021 — delayed one year from its original date due to COVID-19 — the International Union of Architects (UIA) features an interview with architect Francis Kéré, who will give a keynote at UIA2021RIO.
Architect Francis Kéré — born in Burkina Faso and based in Berlin — may be an unlikely choice for Coachella, the popular music festival that takes place in the California desert near Palm Springs for two weekends every April, but his colorful installation stands out from the crowd this year.
The Tippet Rise Art Center has commissioned architect Francis Kéré to design a permanent pavilion that will open on the art center's 10,260 acres in Montana in summer 2019.
The 17th annual Serpentine Pavilion, designed by the Burkina Faso-born, Berlin-based architect, Diébédo Francis Kéré, opens to the public in London's Kensington Gardens on Friday.
The New York-based American Academy of Arts and Letters has announced the recipients of its 2017 architecture awards, including the $20,000 Arnold W. Brunner Memorial Prize to Diébédo Francis Kéré.
Diébédo Francis Kéré – the architect from Burkina Faso who heads Berlin-based Kéré Architecture – has been commissioned to design the 17th annual Serpentine Pavilion in London's Kensington Gardens.
The American Institute of Architects has announced the three days of keynote speakers as part of its upcoming, rebranded AIA Conference on Architecture 2017, formerly known as the AIA Convention.
The Louisiana Museum of Modern Art's Louisiana Channel has compiled clips from some of its excellent interviews with architects to "share their inspirational thoughts on what it is that makes global architecture work."
What does the selection of Alejandro Aravena as the 2016 Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate mean for the future of "architecture's Nobel"? World-Architects ponders the question and offers a handful of nominations for future Pritzker Prize juries to consider.
Most of the 100+ contributions to the Chicago Architecture Biennial take the form of displays that can only be looked at, but a few installations at the entrance to the Chicago Cultural Center, and one outside, invite people to sit for a while.
With last week's announcement of the international search for an architect to design the Obama Presidential Center in Chicago, we take a look at 20 libraries designed by World-Architects member firms since 2004, the year of the striking Clinton Presidential Library designed by ennead architects.
On the occasion of the Making Africa exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has designed and installed a pop-up store for Camper within the Buckminster Fuller Dome on the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany.
In a short film from the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark, Diébédo Francis Kéré, an architect from Burkina Faso who is based in Berlin, speaks about how he designs and builds for the people of his native country.